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What's your story? Join the Lab's cohort of student research collaborators and delve into the world of multi-media production to explore religion, race, and global democracy.

UVA's first-ever study abroad course in Mexico is an opportunity for undergraduates to study contemporary Latin American Indigenous Cinema and produce a community film festival in Cholula, Puebla.

If you ask fourth-year University of Virginia student Misran Dolan what UVA’s Democracy Initiative means to him, he might point you to sporadic messages from his extended family. Dolan and his family are Uyghurs, part of a Turkic minority ethnic group that have faced increasing persecution in China’s contested northwestern territory, referred to as Xinjiang or, by many Uyghurs, as East Turkestan. Dolan’s parents and his two older sisters immigrated to the U.S. right before he was born, but many other family members remained.

What's your story? Join the Lab's cohort of student research collaborators and delve into the world of multi-media production to explore religion, race, and global democracy.

The RRD Lab invites all undergraduate and graduate students in UVA's College of Arts & Sciences to join our cohort of research collaborators. Delve into the world of multi-media production to explore topics at the intersection of religion, race, and global democracy. Thanks to the generous support of the Jefferson Trust, the Lab is offering awards of $3,000 to successful undergraduate applicants and $5,000 to successful graduate applicants. To apply, send the following materials to thereligionlab@virginia.edu by April 1: A project pitch, no longer than 2 pages double-spaced A CV with relevant academic background A brief email from faculty member stating a commitment to serve as your project advisor Read the full CFP here. Photo: Paige Taul '18 and RRD Lab research collaborator

In early February, 2019 the Religion, Race & Democracy Lab was named 1 of 13 grantees to receive funding from the Jefferson Trust. The $100,000 award will fully support 20 individual undergraduate multimedia research projects on the topics of religion, race, and democracy over the course of two years. The Lab will offer undergraduate research collaborators regular training and mentorship, funding and access to technology, and an online publishing platform. Select undergraduates will be part of an established student research cohort, which until now was exclusively graduate students. The first CFP will be announced on March 1. Email thereligionlab@virginia.edu for more information. 

At the end of the 2018 fall semester, Maurice Wallace, Associate Professor of English and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American & African Studies took his students on a memorable class trip to Montgomery, Alabama.

The recently published volume Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity, co-edited by faculty Lab partner and UVA Professor, Claudrena N. Harold (with Louis P. Nelson, UVA Professor of Architecture) brings together the work of UVA faculty members catalyzed by last summer’s events to examine their community’s history more deeply and more broadly.